mon océan & moi

Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the Mediterranean Sea.

Dinoflagellate Ceratium azoricum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium fusus (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Acantharia (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Rosette used to collect seawater samples during a scientific cruise in the South Pacific Ocean. During the austral summer, the amount of chlorophyll a is so low that the water becomes deep blue, almost purple. (Photo : Joséphine Ras)

Mollusk  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Krill (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Large rosette sampler used in the "World Ocean Circulation Experiment". This rosette has 36 10-liter Niskin bottles, an acoustic pinger (lower left), an "LADCP" current profiler (yellow long tube at the center), a CTD (horizontal instrument at the bottom), and transmissometer (yellow short tube at the center). (Photo : L. Talley)

Teaching sheets

Larva of decapod crustacean  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Vue sous-marine d'un groupe de mésocosmes (© Stareso)

Coccolithophore  (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium extensum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Gelatinous plankton Mneniopsis  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)